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Gimme Hope Joanna
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Brass Ensemble, Brass Quintet French Horn, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1843834
By Eddy Grant. Composed by Eddy Grant. Arranged by Peet du Toit. This edition: pdf. Folk. 19 pages. Peet du Toit #1403389. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.1843834)."Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but was widely played there nonetheless. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Grant's first British top 10 hit for five years.
"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was targeted at the South African apartheid National Party government and apartheid culture. Though the lyrics are worded as if the singer is addressing a person, "Jo'anna" is a reference to Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa and symbolic of the apartheid government. It expressed hope for change in South Africa. The song ends on an optimistic note of hope that the apartheid system would end soon, which it ultimately did in 1991.
The song gained international attention and charted at number 7 in the UK Singles Charts and at number 1 in a number of European countries.
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